The June Week 1 Group Challenge is open and ready to begin on Sunday, May 29th. Join us for "Cardio & Caring"! Hope to see you there!

Here's your link:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10865587/june-week-1-group-challenge-cardio-caring#latest

Jessica

Hi WNM...1 more joining your wonderful team ... Please welcome @dianabn70

Happy New Month, Everybody! So happy to see all the new faces in the chat (and the old ones too, not that I'm calling anyone old, I swear)!

I am minstrelofsarcasm, also known as Minstrel, also known as Ashley, also known as "that sweaty girl in the corner"... I am one of the co-captains along with the ever-marvelous @melaniedscott. My role here is to provide some real talk, some good motivation, and a few too many jokes about stress eating for anyone's comfort levels.

The Basics:

I am 26 and currently living in Ohio. I work as a combustion engineer for an industrial manufacturing company (I set things on fire for money). I am fascinated by all facets of science, whether that be nuclear physics, nutrition, geology (I hear it rocks), chemistry, etc. Feel free to ask any of your questions when it comes to the science of things. I can't guarantee I'll know the answer, but I can definitely figure it out and provide an answer in a way that's (hopefully) understandable.

Why I am Here:

I love numbers, and when I discovered that I could get healthier (as my doctor told me I absolutely had to do) by keeping track of numbers, I signed up for MFP. My original weight was 8lbs 2oz, and while I don't think I'll ever make it quite that low ever again, my goal is to never be above my highest weight of 234 (September 2014).

Despite having joined this wonderful community, I didn't take my weight loss or my health seriously until after I graduated college in May 2017 and was told by a different doctor that my eating and (lack of) exercise habits put me on the road to diabetes. I'll admit, I was terrified. I grew up with a diabetic parent who took no actions towards improving their health to reduce their dependence on insulin and is now facing some very serious health complications. I didn't want that to happen to me - I wouldn't want to put anyone through having to worry about me in the same way I worried about them.

So I searched "gym" on Google Maps, and signed up for a free class with the first place that popped up in the results, a spin studio. Since July 1st, 2017, I have completed over 1,040 spin classes. There was some… drama at the spin studio, so I no longer have a membership, but will drop in from time to time.

In other news, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in December 2019 after an arduous journey from doctor to doctor, through several misdiagnoses (why is it that the first thing a doctor will suggest is anxiety if you're female and show emotion in the doctor's office?), 14 vials of blood drawn for blood tests, 3 weeks of being unable to consistently feel the left side of my body, 2 MRIs, 1 spinal tap, and a partridge in a pear tree. I could go into a long rant about everything, and I have, but there's no need to fill my introduction with things I've written time and time again (I'll post a link to my blog, for those of you interested in my madness).

In Summary:

Since joining MFP, I have lost over 70 lbs, regained about 15 while on a three-month business trip in France (wine and cheese is my weakness), lost 5 of them, gained 5 of them, maintained throughout 2020, yo-yo'ed for the first few months of 2021, and here I stand (sit) around 170 lbs, over 60 lbs lost. I don't have a goal weight anymore, since BMI was developed by a mathematician and not a doctor, and as long as I feel healthy, I can weigh whatever I want (somewhere in the 150's sounds pretty good right now, but I guess we'll see).

As for exercising, I have recently moved to another part of the city and am on the lookout for a new gym. There’s one in my apartment building, but it’s difficult to be self motivated on my own. Maybe I’ll have more determination if I start to see my weight slip…

If you want to know more about me, or my journey, feel free to ask questions, or you can find my blog here: LINK

Blog posts I’m especially proud of:

• Creating a Sense of Accountability - This is my first blog post ever, and I’ve grown a lot since then, but so many of the same factors are still present in my life
• More Work to Do - Here’s a confession of some recent unhealthy thoughts I’ve had regarding my health journey, and some of my thoughts may sound similar to ones you’ve had towards yourself
• BMI is BS - I essentially wrote a history lesson on BMI and why you shouldn’t base your self worth on it. Most likely, your BMI is misrepresenting you.

I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you even more as we work our way through the month.

minstrelofsarcasm wrote: »

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Tremendous congratulations to all the winners on our team!!! WTG!!!

I am excited for June and the results we can achieve individually and also as a team!

jessicakrall8 wrote: »

The June Week 1 Group Challenge is open and ready to begin on Sunday, May 29th. Join us for "Cardio & Caring"! Hope to see you there!

Here's your link:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10865587/june-week-1-group-challenge-cardio-caring#latest

Jessica

Awesome I am going to check it out! @jessicakrall8 Thanks for putting together the challenges, they are very helpful!

Sun-14,365
Mon-10,501
Tues-8,823
Wed-9,286
Thurs-7,484
Fri-6,289
Sat-5,063

Honestly, not too bad after having returned from Vegas and completely fallen into the trap of "I'll do it later" all day yesterday when I intended to go out for a walk around the neighborhood. I very much need to find a new routine, and quick. The lethargy is starting to kick in and I'm really not in the mood to need to squeeze into my jeans again or, MFP gods forbid, buy larger clothes again. I used my apartment building's gym this morning to get a quick sweat in, but it's nothing compared to the kind of workouts I was doing a couple weeks ago.

All in all, I'm in a good place, and I know how to get where I want to be. I just need to actually do it and stop making excuses for myself. Integrity is saying you'll do something, and then actually doing it.

user name: seltzer_lover
weigh-in days: Monday
5/23: 241.8
5/3031: 241.2

MotylekOkruchy
It was a very active Memorial Weekend for me. Kids had no school on Friday already so I took a day off too. We did a lot of hiking over these 4 days!

Here are the steps for last week:
Sunday: 11036
Monday: 12077
Tuesday: 15940
Wednesday: 14681
Thursday: 13550
Friday: 19476
Saturday: 25581

Total: 112,341

Worldtrav89
Weigh in 6.1.2022

Pw: 239.0
Cw: 239.4

May Week Four Team Statistics -
Steppers: 5
Total Steps: 357,556
Average Steps per Stepper: 71,511

May Week Four Leaderboard -
@MotylekOkruchy - 112,341 total | 16,049 average - Most Steps in One Day!
@shnkrnrynn - 73,425 total | 10,489 average - Most Consistent!
@browan19 - 70,173 total | 10,025 average
@ljdanny - 61,811 total | 8,830 average
@BodyTalking - 39,806 total | 5,687 average

Overall May Team Statistics -
Steppers: 8
Total Steps: 1,724,316
Average Steps per Stepper: 215,540

Overall May Leaderboard -
@ljdanny - 305,299 total
@MotylekOkruchy - 304,617 total
@browan19 - 273,470 total - Most Consistent Week to Week!!
@shnkrnrynn - 255,801 total
@BodyTalking - 228,149 total
@TwinMama91521 - 148,666 total
@pacsnc6 - 104,967 total
@melaniedscott - 103,347 total

We've definitely upped our game this month. Can we hit 2 million steps during the month of June? I bet we can! Let's give it our all and try to enjoy the weather while we have it (IF we have it).

June Week 1
Weigh In Day: Thursdays
PW (Previous Weight): 183.2 (May 26th)
CW (Current Weight): 181.8 (June 2nd)

LTD: 89.3lbs

I may have hit plateau, the scale has not moved much this week.
I have been running 5k daily!!! 0 loss as of now. I am eating lesser but I am already at 1590 calories consumption, any lesser would be bad for the body. There are obvious non scale progress I am seeing on a day to day basis but this stalling for a week has me worried.

shnkrnrynn wrote: »

I may have hit plateau, the scale has not moved much this week.
I have been running 5k daily!!! 0 loss as of now. I am eating lesser but I am already at 1590 calories consumption, any lesser would be bad for the body. There are obvious non scale progress I am seeing on a day to day basis but this stalling for a week has me worried.

All that running is likely creating muscle change...which can result in retaining water and muscle growth can look like gains. And sometimes your body just holds on...maybe it wants to see if you really mean it! Hang in there. One week, even two or three isn't that weird.